On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 03:08:54AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 01:45:28AM -0500, Sam TH wrote: > > > On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 12:46:04AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > > > fonts shipped, such as their license information). If one > > > or more of the fonts so packaged are necessary for proper > > > operation of the package with which they are associated > > > the > > > font package may be Recommended; if the fonts merely > > > provide an enhancement, a Suggests relationship may be > > > used. Packages must not Depend on font packages. > > > > Why should packages that require a particular font package for > > operation (and indeed normally require that package to be installed on > > the local system AND the remote system) not depend on their font > > packages? > > > > I ask since AbiWord is exactly one such package. > > Because, as indicated elsewhere in the proposal, the fonts may be served by a > font server, and thus need not be installed locally. A Recommends: > font-package is probably appropriate. >
Like I said, AbiWord requires the fonts to be installed locally. It
doesn't work otherwise.
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